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Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Alexis Shotwell
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Paperback. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 296.
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, as fundamental to our lives? Against Purity argues that the only answer-if we are to have any hope of tackling the past, present, and future of colonialism, disease, pollution, and climate change-is a ... Read more
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, as fundamental to our lives? Against Purity argues that the only answer-if we are to have any hope of tackling the past, present, and future of colonialism, disease, pollution, and climate change-is a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
295g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816698646
SKU
V9780816698646
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About Alexis Shotwell
Alexis Shotwell is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Department of Philosophy, at Carleton University. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding.
Reviews for Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Readers will find Against Purity to be timely and important, drawing together distinct but nonetheless congruent strains of theorizing that enable and facilitate new modes of collective action. -PhaenEx, Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture On a planet overtaken by the problems and figure of man, this perspective is crucial to keep in mind ... Read more